One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

Every word is a prejudice.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.