If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude and to exclude and grow, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.