“Night is the other half of life, and the better half.”

“When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one.”

“It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.”

“Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.”

“It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.”

“see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which gain have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation”

“I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful...”