If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.