In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it.

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

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.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.