Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.