But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.