All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path..

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes..

the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh,….

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love..

But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people..

Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love which she had ….

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom..

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you ….

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate..

I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot..

In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living w….

And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with ….

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and fol….

Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wid….

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them..

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson..

All fires burn out at last..

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of….

No doing without some ruing..

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle..

I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour..