There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.