Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him