The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.