One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.