"Imagination decides everything."

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."

"The greater the mind, the more it sees in others."

"We are seeking a quiet life, but we are seeking it in a place where there is no rest."

"To be a man is to be an object of scorn to the angels, and of envy to the devils."