The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.