What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.