The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities; in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.