“All truths are bloody truths to me.”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.”

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!”

“In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.”

“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.”

“Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.”

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”