“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.”

“We are all of us denying or fulfilling prayers – and men in their careless deeds walk amidst invisible outstretched arms and pleadings made in vain.”

“For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. The story of their coming to be shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross, is hardly ever told even in their consciousness; for perhaps their ardour in generous unpaid toil cooled as imperceptibly as the ardour of other youthful loves, till one day their earlier self walked like a ghost in its old home and made the new furniture ghastly.”

“I magnified, as usual, the impression any word or deed of mine could produce on others.”

“Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!”

“Tis what i love determines how i love”