"maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all."

“Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?”

“It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.”

“Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.”

“In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.”

“The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight dances, and licentious spectacles, present at once temptation and opportunity to female frailty. From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life.”

“And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.”

“Without realizing who you are, happiness cannot come to you.”

“I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.”