If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

Skepticism is slow suicide.