If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

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

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.