Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.