What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.
The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
The hero is he who is immovably centered.
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.