Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.