An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.