Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.

The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.