It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap