They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.