There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.