If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.