I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs