Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.