A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

The universe without music would be madness.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.