Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.