There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day.

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

I'm not rebellious, but I am very strong-willed. I know what I believe in, and I know what I think is right.

The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.

If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.

A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.

What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?