Art raises its head where creeds relax.
I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness wonโt chime.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.