We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!