Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —