“A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.”
“Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.”
“Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart.”
“It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...”
“Appreciate the things and people in your life while remaining independent of them. Give thanks for them, but realize that they do not complete you. Only you can complete you.”
“Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.”