A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.