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

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.