We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.