The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.