“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Almost everything comes from nothing.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”