Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.