The good displeases us when we are not up to it.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.