The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.