“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

“The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”

“The scientist has in common with the artist only this: that he can find no better retreat from the world than his work and no stronger link with the world than his work.”

“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”

“...what could be more vexing than to be feted on his birthday when he wants nothing so much as to retreat in solitude to ponder the approach of his own mortality?”

“The man had no more romance in his soul than a codfish”