“No one suffers long, save by his own fault. If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him?”

“All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.”

“That philosopher who orders us to conceal ourselves and to care for no one but ourselves and who wishes us to remain unknown to others, wants us even less to be held in honour and glory by them. He also advised Idomeneus in no wise to govern his actions by reputation or by common opinion, except to avoid such incidental disadvantages as the contempt of men might bring him.10 Those words are infinitely true, in my opinion, and are reasonable.”

“So much din from so many philosophical brainboxes! Trust in your philosophy now! Boast that you are the one who has found the lucky bean in your festive pudding!”

“I had rather my son should learn in a tan-house to speak, than in the schools to prate.”

As always he behaved as if he were an abstraction, not really there, a machine without a soul.

A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel myself worthy of such a wealth of opportunity?

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble air.

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing

We are all creatures of the stars.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

“It takes a very long time to become young.”

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper - and not his oppressor - is very beautiful .

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced.

There is a wisdom in this; beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

“Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.”

“Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough, but the names of the towns are gone, as well as any sense of the order in which I traveled from place to place.”

“But it has finally hit me: she is neither a concept nor a symbol nor a metaphor. She actually exists: she has warm flesh and a spirit that moves. I never should have lost sight of that warmth and that movement.”

All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.