"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." - Alexis Carrel

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." - Albert Camus

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

"Mortality is fatal,
Gentility is fine,
Rascality heroic,
Insolvency sublime."
- Emily Dickinson, Sic transit gloria mundi

"Direct your eyesight inward, and you'll find
A thousand regions in your mind
Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be
Expert in home Cosmographie.
This you may do safe both from rock and shelf
Man's a whole world within himself."
- William Habington, To my honoured friend Sir Ed. P. Knight