He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.

but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Where there is love, there is God also.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.