Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.

"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

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

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.