The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy, or theology] ...There can be, without any question at all, as good higher mathematics about a turnip as about a man. But I do not think, though I speak in a manner somewhat tentative, that there could be as good a novel written about a turnip as a man.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.