Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy