I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.