To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Humility has the toughest hide.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he be thrown out of his Heaven, he makes himself a suitable ideal out of Hell.

The visionary denies the truth to himself, the liar only to others.

"Pity for all" would be hardness and tyranny toward you, my dear neighbor.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourselves less to the moment.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.