“There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.”

“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ”

“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ”

“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”

“A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.”