Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
Done because we are too many.
I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.
Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.