Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.