He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.