The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. – William James
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in ones self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. – Michelangelo