Become who you are. Make what only you can make.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.