And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.

I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.