If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

Optimism is cowardice.

To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.