The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

The last Christian died on a cross.