. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction

If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.