In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.