I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy. To regret deeply is to live afresh. There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now. Our life is frittered away by detail. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.