We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.