From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.