Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
Real action is in silent moments.
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.