To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defense in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it.

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

I have attacked no one as not being a Christian, I have condemned no one.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.