I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.