"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

"Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul will grow sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have …"

"I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain long in the mould of the other, but makes its own bed, and pushes itself away the shortest and surest way, by i…"

"The only way to get a friend is to be one."