To create something you must be something.
Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.
The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.