Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

The English are the people of consummate cant.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).