Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.