I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.
Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.
It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an assembly of patterns. It is not dense. It is not profound. But it is also possible to put patterns together in such a way that many patterns overlap in the same physical space: the building is very dense; it has many meanings captured in a small space; and through this density, it becomes profound.