“Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.”

“Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.”

“The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.”

“The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.”

“An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.”

“Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.”

“People don't always need a name.”

“I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having.”

“Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rocklike a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack itand you might get either your first glimpse of ...”

“Universe is nothing, but human thought.”

“Nothing is the whole story. The selfs curse and the writers.”

“There's a fine line, you know. Between having space and having nothing.”

“No one asks poor people if they want war. Nor had anyone asked these poor people if they wanted to die of thirst and exposure on the coastal sea, or if they wanted to be robbed and raped by their o...”

“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”

“The rich are all alike, to revise Tolstoys famous words, but the poor are poor in their own particular ways. Any reasonably intelligent reader could blow that generalization apart in the time it ta...”