It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.

Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.