“Would you live with ease,Do what you ought, and not what you please.”
“Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.”
“Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?”
“Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.”
“But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live”
“Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.”