Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.