The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.