Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.