You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

Experience is only half of experience.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.