In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

The history of a man is in his character.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Everything is hard before it is easy.

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.

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.