Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it. Journals

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. A Study in Scarlet

You could not in your travels find the source or destination of the soul, so deeply hidden is the Logos. [But] I searched for It [and found It] within myself.That hidden Unity is beyond what is visible.All men have this capacity of knowing themselves, [for] the soul has the Logos within it, which can be known when the soul is evolved. What is within us remains the same eternally; It is the same in life and death, waking and sleeping, youth and old age; for, It has become this world, and the world must return to It. Fragments

Our culture today confuses great attention and great success, assuming them to be the same thing. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck