Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

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

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring