to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.