I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the read more

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far read more

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

Without haste, but without rest.

Without haste, but without rest.

. . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect read more

. . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on read more

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through read more

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.