“If even God has a hell, which is his love for mankind, then any man has his hell within easy reach, and that's his love for his family.”

“Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.”

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”

“If man could do what in his wildest self-worship he can imagine, the grand result would be that he would be his own God, which is the Hell of Hells.”

“Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell...”

“Ah, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the pitiful? And what in the world hath caused more suffering than the follies of the pitiful?Woe unto all loving ones who have not an elevation which is above their pity!Thus spake the devil unto me, once on a time: "Even God hath his hell: it is his love for man." And lately, did I hear him say these words: "God is dead: of his pity for man hath God died.”