It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.
You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.
We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.
Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.
Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.
Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
Every man’s condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.
Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.