Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

To the mean all becomes mean.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.