Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.