The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs