“It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.”

“It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better.”

“If God wrote the New Testament, he knew surprisingly little Greek.”

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ”

“Prejudice of the learned. – The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.”

“one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”

“Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.”