The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

To have and to want more that is life.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.