One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.