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In the course of a single life, a man can be many things: a beloved child in a brightly embroidered gown, a street tough with a band of knifemen walking at his side, lover to a beautiful girl, husband to an honest woman, father to a child, grain sweeper in a brewery, widower, musician, and mendicant coughing his lungs up outside the city walls. The only thing they have in common is that they are the same man.

— Age of Ash by Daniel Abraham

“One of the deep secrets of Life,” Charles Lutwidge Dodgson confided to his friend the actress Ellen Terry, is “that all, that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others.”

— The selected letters of Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll (Page 0)

Tell me what is a thought, and of what substance is it made? Tell me what is a joy, and in what gardens do joys grow? And in what rivers swim the sorrows? And upon what mountains Wave shadows of discontent? And in what houses dwell the wretched, Drunken with woe, forgotten, and shut up from cold despair?

— The Selected Poems of William Blake by William Blake (Page 234)