“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something”

“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs”

“My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious”

“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party”

“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery”

“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”