How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.