Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.