The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.