Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

What is fruitful alone is true.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

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.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.