Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.
Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.
The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
It is the eye which makes the horizon.
If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.