Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.