A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.