“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”

“Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are.”

“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”

“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”

“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.”

“The mind commands the body, and obedience is instant; the mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind tells the hand to move, and all goes so smoothly that it is hard to distinguish the command from its execution. Yet the mind is the mind, and the hand is a body. The mind tells the mind to will; one is the same as the other, and yet it does not do what it is told.”

“Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.”