As in nature things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. Cure the disease and kill the patient. I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. I did not know that we had ever quarrelled. On being urged to make his peace with God. One world at a time.