The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.