One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.