The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.