A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.

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