Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.