The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

To create something you must be something.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.