What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.