What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.