In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.