"A refined nature is vexed by knowing..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The hour-hand of life.”

“How much beer is in German intelligence?”

“The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.”

“If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.”

“I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!”

“Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are.”

“... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.”

“A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias.The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.”

“Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers”