Humility has the toughest hide.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?