The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

All true work is sacred.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.