"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love." — Gilbert Parker

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.