“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.”

“It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do me no good to own land. Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck; through thought I grasp it.”

“It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.”

“As I write down my thought it sometimes escapes me, but that reminds me of my weakness, which I am always forgetting, and teaches me as much as my forgotten thought, for I care only about knowing that I am nothing.”

“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”

“We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.”

“By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.”