Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.