In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me.