We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.