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

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.