Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.
There is no genius where there is not simplicity.
Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.