I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
I am a book I neither wrote nor read.
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?
How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.
Even paranoids have real enemies.
I was the most subtle person in the world.
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.