It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.