The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.