Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.