I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.