A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.

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

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.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

Sleeping is the height of genius