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.

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!