If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

Every word is a preconceived judgment.

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.