We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. – Frederick W. Faber

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obedience to the heart. – William Butler Yeats

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by