Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.
That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.
Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.
If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.