In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress. Atomic Habits

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust. The Art Of War

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. Moby Dick