When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?