Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

Love is acting stupid together.

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.