A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.