Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

All words are prejudices.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.