But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

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.