Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.