The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
“The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.”
“Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.”