It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.