No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.