Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.