The thing I fear most is fear.

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

You have your face bare; I am all face.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.