Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.