None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

He was the oldest. When we left Kentucky, our folks told him to look after me. Didn't say a word to me. Wouldn't have occurred to them.

Love the wife of your youth. Never abandon her.

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.

There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.

War is the father and king of all.

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid, more real, more substantial, and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

No failure means no risk, which means nothing new

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.