Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.