All men are born good.
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.
I think that people are innately good.
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
There is in us a spark of something good, something right and beautiful.
There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
We don't need wings to be angels We don't need reasons to be right Your love makes us all better That who we really are Angels and heroes at heart
