No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.

There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.

The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.

Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.