Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.