It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.