They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.