Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.