It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.