We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.