"Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.”

“We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.”

“The stream is always purer at its source.[Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]”

“Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.”

“There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.”

“There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.”

“Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.”

“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”

“Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .”