As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.