Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.