To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.