Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

It is dreadful that one cannot tear our the past by the roots. We cannot tear it out but we can hide the memory of it.

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot accustom himself, especially if he sees that every one around him lives in the same way.