Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

Stand guard at the portal of your mind.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.