The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

Liberty of the people is not my liberty!

Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use.

If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.