The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.

European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.