It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.