Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.