I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

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.

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.