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

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.