That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.