In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.