You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

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

Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.