The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

The malicious have a dark happiness.

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.