A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.