Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.