When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

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.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.