The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.