There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

Humility has the toughest hide.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.