Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

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.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.