A man of true science... uses but few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; whereas the smatterer in science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

The man who speaks is the man who thinks out loud.

A man is literally what he thinks.

He talked, and listened, and tried to do the hardest thing of all.
He tried to understand.

A man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows.

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

If now and then we encounter pages that explode, pages that wound and sear, that wring groans and tears and curses, know that they come from a man with his back up, a man whose only defenses left are his words and his words are always stronger than the lying, crushing weight of the world, stronger than all the racks and wheels which the cowardly invent to crush out the miracle of personality. If any man ever dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is truly his truth, I think then the world would go to smash, that it would be blown to smithereens and no god, no accident, no will could ever again assemble the pieces, the atoms, the indestructible elements that have gone to make up the world.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

When a man knows what he is talking about, his voice crackles with authority.

He seems to have this strange difficulty grasping that I actually mean what I say.

A man has to grow up in a language to be able to understand it scrambled.