One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.