But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.

All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.