We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.