as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

I think we are in a non-essentialist bubble—everything seems important—so of course nothing is.

Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.

Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.

Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.