A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.