We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

What we don't understand we don't possess.

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.