One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.