The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.