Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

My vegetable love will growVaster than empires, and more slow.

It's impossible to lose that which does not belong to you.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

I find shoes difficult to be ethical about.