Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.