Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

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

Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.