Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!