"Either never, or very seldom, do the quiet actions in life appear to be better than the quick and energetic ones."

"Yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route."

"The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things."

"No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes."