Criticism should be a casual conversation.

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.