If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.