How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

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