He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

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

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

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.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.