The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Look out! Behind you!

Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.