The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.