“Love does not only need a taste, but it also needs a present.”

“He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.”

“A home isn’t only defined by what you need, Bram. It’s also about the people who need you.”

“A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need.”

“Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.”

“There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.”