To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of o…

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and ho…

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thou…