Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.

What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.