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

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.