Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

GEORGE SEWELL

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.

FRANK ROONEY

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

CHARLES FEIDELSON, JR.

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life.

WILLIAM JAMES

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

AMIEL

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

JOHN OLIVER HOBBE

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.

ELIZA TABOR

What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

GEORGE ELIOT

All cruelty springs from weakness.

SENECA

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

THOMAS WOLFE

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

THOMAS DE QUINCEY