When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

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.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.