A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.
The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.
