The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.