Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them

With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.