A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.
A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.
It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.
Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.