Hope is passion for what is possible.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.