The living are just the dead on holiday

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.

They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.