“A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.”

“A man has two reasons for doing something; a good reason and the real reason.”

“One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.”

“The memory of that first state of Freedom and paradisiac Unconsciousness has faded away into an ideal poetic dream. We stand here too conscious of many things: with Knowledge, the symptom of Derangement, we must even do our best to restore a little Order. Life is, in few instances, and at rare intervals, the diapason of a heavenly melody; oftenest the fierce jar of disruptions and convulsions, which, do what we will, there is no disregarding.”

“A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.”

“Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.”

“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.”