We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

We are all afraid of the truth.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.