I Found It Better For My Soul

Human Longings Are Perversely Obstinate; And To The Man Whose Mouth Is Watering For A Peach, It Is Of No Use To Offer The Largest Vegetable Marrow.

But Certain Winds Will Make Men's Temper Bad.

Fear Was Stronger Than The Calculation Of Probabilities.

What Do We Live For, If Not To Make Life Less Difficult For Each Other?

Consequences Are Unpitying. Our Deeds Carry Their Terrible Consequences, Quite Apart From Any Fluctuations That Went Before—consequences That Are Hardly Ever Confined To Ourselves. And It Is Best To Fix Our Minds On That Certainty, Instead Of Considering What May Be The Elements Of Excuse For Us.