The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

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

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.