I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.