“There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.”
“Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.”
“A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.”
“in languages that derive from Latin "compassion" means: we cannot look on coolly as others suffer; or, we sympathize with those who suffer”
“Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.”
“Man’s striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.”