When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!