Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.