No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.