Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

The eternal female draws us onward.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.