Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

Depression is rage spread thin.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.