I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.