We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?