He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.