Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.