“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

“He who moves not forward, goes backward.”

“Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.”

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”

“We may get to know the world however we choose, it will always keep a day and night aspect.”

“A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.”

“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.”