For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

It is opposition that makes us productive.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.