Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.