There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.