Man makes god in his own image.

Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.