Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

Success has always been a great liar.

Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.