Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Beware of spitting against the wind!

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.