What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!