All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!