The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

Whether he sleeps or wakes,--whether he runs or walks,--whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye,--a man never discovers anything, never overtakes anything, or leaves anything behind, but himself. Whatever he says or does, he merely reports himself. If he is in love, he loves; if he is in heaven, he enjoys; if he is in hell, he suffers. It is his condition that determines his locality.

There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.