Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

What love commences can be finished by God alone.