Many find their heart when they have lost their head.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.