There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.