Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Truth is one, but error is manifold.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.