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

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.