Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.