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

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.