I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.