The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Self-command is the main elegance.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.