“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

“I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”

“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”

“When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowin...”

“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.”

“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back”

“I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth's the right plac...”

“Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?”

“The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!”

“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it shor”

“Damn you, spoilt creature; I shant make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.”

“I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. ...”

“There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper which says 'I am more than just my appearance'. If each object quivers with readiness to imply some...”