Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

Intellect--brain force.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.