It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

We crave support in vanity as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.