How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.