A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

The strong must learn to be lonely.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that “walks” in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines.

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.