We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.