The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.