The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?