"It is a timeless truth that the universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a essential truth that he who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world."

"To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness."

"A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime."

"Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had."

"We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

"It is a humble truth that vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos — an essential principle for the reflective life."