The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

What is the strongest cure?--Victory.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.