The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.