Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans

The world of imagination is the world of eternity.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.