We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

It is your friends who make your world.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.

A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.