Keep anger alive, lest it sink into compassion. All bodily racks and torments are nothing compared with certain states of human mind. An offense cannot be wiped out by an apology. If it could, we would substitute apologies for hangings. In vain does the unjust aspirer hope to cover his infamy with ill-got titles and the glare of pomp. The base groundwork is visible through all the tinseled outside. Since all human affairs are subject to organic disorder, since they are created in and sustained by a sort of half-disciplined chaos, he who in great things seeks success must never wait for smooth water, which never was and never will be, but, with what straggling method he can, dash with all his derangements at his derangements at his object, leaving the rest to fortune. See, all your angry enemies lie there, confused and humiliated. Anyone who opposes you will die and come to nothing. The day of salvation is at hand. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 5

All visible objects are but as pasteboard masks. However, in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it. Words are wind; but deeds are mind. Life is discontent. Hope, which is one of our chief sources of enjoyment, is discontent, since it seeks that which it has not. Content is a sluggard, and should be a slave—a thing to eat and sleep, and perhaps to dream of eating and sleeping, but not a thing to live. Discontent is the life of enterprise, of achievement, of glory—ay even of affection. Without discontent—a serious and unsleeping discontent—life would be a stagnant stream as untroubled as the back water of the swamps of Edistoh, and as full of the vilest reptiles. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 5

No bond unites congenial hearts more firmly than that of a common great aim. If you meet each development of every question in the most natural and reasonable manner—presupposing that you possess that highest attribute of civilization, common sense—no question will ever resolve itself into a problem. And difficulties usually disappear as the range of vision contracts. Let us always have men ready to give the loving pains of a life to the faithful in representing of commonplace things—men who see beauty in these commonplace things, and delight in showing how kindly the light of Heaven falls on them. Because I utter commonplace words, you must not suppose I think only commonplace thoughts. The liberty of communication cannot be mine till it has lost all its value. Why have we the power of speech, but to communicate thoughts? #RyanPhillippe 3 of 5

Good heads and good hearts generally go together, but they are not inseparable companions. Life is full of the saddest and the strongest contrast. A companionable man will put up with many inconveniences for the sake of enjoying agreeable society. The wine cannot be bad where the company is agreeable. Occasionally, an exquisitely blissful energy, an Infinite Love, would suddenly begin to radiate from the heart toward the scene of some calamity. Once, while driving on a highway, this exquisite energy began to beam out of the chest. As the car rounded a bend, there was an auto accident; the wheels of the overturned care were still spinning. The energy passed with great intensity into the occupants of the car and then stopped of its own accord. Another time, while I was walking on the streets of a unique city, the energy started to flow down the block ahead and arrived at the scene of an incipient gang fight. The combatants fell back and began to laugh, and again, the energy stopped.  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 5

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. If nobody was suffered to speak till he had something to say, what pains everybody would take to know something! The humblest painter of real life, if he could have his desire, would select a picturesque background for his figures; but events have an inexorable fashion of choosing their own landscape. No matter how far away I am from you and how many years before we meet again, I am always missing and blessing you in my heart. I can forget the unreturned fate, but I cannot forget your image and my love. I am free from belief in sin; there is neither sin nor sinner. There is no judgment against anyone. God does not condemn and man cannot. All fear of sin is removed from me; all belief in punishment is gone from me. I live by one power, and no thought can enter to disturb me. There is neither sin nor sinner. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 5