Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.