Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.