I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.