When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed - it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows - not even God.