Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.

The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.