Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world -- and never will. Consistency

The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. Never Give In!

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle. Seagull

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense