"Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion."

"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end."

"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."

"Going home must be like going to render an account."

"The canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."