“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”

“Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. ”

“Quotation confesses inferiority.”

“People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily, but know that it is foreign to them. As they do by books, so they quote the sunset and the star, and do not make them theirs. Worse yet, they live as foreigners in a world of truth, and quote thoughts, and thus disown them. Quotation confesses inferiority”

“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.”

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”

“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”