There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.