It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.