There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.