There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".