What's the point of talking and thinking about the future which for the most part doesn't depend on us? If the opportunity arises to do something-great, and if it doesn't at least you'll be glad you didn't chatter about it beforehand.

I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.

He has no faith in principles, only in frogs.

In his heart he was highly delighted with his friend's suggestion, but he thought it a duty to conceal his feeling. He was not a nihilist for nothing!

Nature's not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

We act by virtue of what we recognize as beneficial. At the present time, negation is the most beneficial of all—and we deny.