There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.