As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.