No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.