Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.