To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

Choose a self and stand by it.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.