A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.