Sandt etisk er et menneske kun, når det redder alt liv, som det kan hjælpe, og undlader at skade noget levende. Livet er i sig selv helligt. Etik er det til det grænseløse udvidede ansvar mod alt, som lever.
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.