Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.