What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

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

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

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

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.