“This miserable state
is borne by the wretched souls of those
who lived without disgrace and without praise.”

“I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.”

“Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.”

“Prayer is the breath of a new-born soul, and there can be no Christian life without it.”

“People born for music could not live without it.”

“I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”

“Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.”

“…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.”

“In the gutters lies the black man, dead,
And where oil flows blackest, the streets run red,
And there was He who was born and came to be,
Who lived and died without liberty”

“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.”