I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

The secret of success in education is respecting the students.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.