“Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.”

“There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.”

“Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?”

“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”