Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.