Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

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

The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.