Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

The religions we call false were once true.