God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.