Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.