Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.