It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.