To be great is to be misunderstood.

To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.