I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.