Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

The lie is a condition of life.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.