We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about!