Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.