For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.