Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.