We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.