In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

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

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.