Everything is sweetened by risk.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it …

Each time we love, We turn a nearer and a broader mark To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to g…

In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual clai…

The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.