"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us."

"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."

"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle."

"He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind."

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."

"Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world."

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over."

"Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity."

"All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody抯 property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls."

"Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys."

"Half of analysis is anal."