The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!

And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself