If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.

The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.