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

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.