Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. Atomic Habits

Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. Emma

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. The Picture of Dorian Gray

You would say... inexperienced as I am, and ready to start, as the proverb says, at my own shadow, I cannot afford to give up the sure ground of principle. ...and when you are further required to give an explanation of this principle, you would go on to assume a higher principle, and the best of the higher ones, until you found a resting place; but you would not refuse the principle and consequences in your reasoning like the Eristics—at least if you wanted to discover real existence. The Trials Of Socrates