But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.

Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.