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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a... →
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.