The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.