The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.