But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.

Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.