If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!