Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.