Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.