Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.