Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.