Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

It is often little things that are hardest to stand.

[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.)