“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things”

“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it”

“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied”

“One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake”

“In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost”

“If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.”