If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.