Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.
Nathaniel HawthorneThere is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.
Nathaniel HawthorneCannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?
Nathaniel Hawthorne