The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.