To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

The doer alone learneth.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.