The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.