Love me, then, or hate me, as you will, " I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Your strength is your wealth.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

The Bible is the place where God bears His soul.

I'm from Spain, and in Spain, things in the '80s after the dictatorship, it was like a big explosion of freedom.

I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.