After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

What is the strongest cure?--Victory.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.