Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions--these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term "experience.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

All great authors are seers.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.