When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.