Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.