There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.