Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
I am almost equal to a shadow.
What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking
People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.
Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.