He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.