There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.