No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.