The English are a nation of consummate cant.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.