There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.