“The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased.”

“Knowing is not enough. You must accept My blessings in order to attain a better life. You must embrace a higher level of consciousness.”

“A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded.It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.”

“Melancholy is to know the beauty of life, and to know it must end.”

“If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.”

“You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.”