“The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.”

“There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…”

“The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness”

“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”

“To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd”

“Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.”

“Such [communistic] legislation may have a specious appearance of benevolence; men readily listen to it, and are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the evils now existing in states, suits about contracts, convictions for perjury, flatteries of rich men and the like, which are said to arise out of the possession of private property. These evils, however, are due to a very different cause - the wickedness of human nature. Indeed, we see that there is much more quarrelling among those who have all things in common, though there are not many of them when compared with the vast numbers who have private property.”