One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

I am no man, I am dynamite.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.