"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints,…"

"The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed."

"The most tremendous energy of which human nature is capable is the agony of being a self."

"The present age is an age of dissolution, an age of disintegration, an age of destruction."

"The present age has lost all passion and enthusiasm."