Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.