Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human.
The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.
I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.