There is a madness that is better than wisdom. - John Buchan

Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.

It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.

We had our pride shattered, and without humility there can be no humanity.