"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

"The greatest of evils is to be guilty of none."

"We are wont to imagine that it would be a pleasant pastime to be a potato and grow in the dark, but it is not so."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul will grow sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have …"