he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

The virtue of books is to be readable.

Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Truth is the summit of being.

When it is darkest, we can see the stars.