She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'.

Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.