“Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.”

“None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself.”

“When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself”

“He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.”

“...the manner in which we live, and that in which we ought to live, are things so wide asunder, that he who quits the one to betake himself to the other is more likely to destroy than to save himself; since any one who would act up to a perfect standard of goodness in everything, must be ruined among so many who are not good.”

“God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.”