I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to…

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force. And force is a crime in the eyes of the fools, the we…

A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.