I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.
Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
Investigate what is, and not what pleases.
Sing it not in mournful numbers.
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.