You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.