It is clear, we say, as if to see through something were to know it. — James Richardson

"Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden."

"Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one."

"Why would we write if we’d already heard what we wanted to hear?"

"If you do everything for one reason, then all you have done will become meaningless when the reason does."

"Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer."

"On what is valuable thieves and the law agree."