The noble soul reveres itself

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

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.