Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.