The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'