“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.