In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.
An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.