“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”

“Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets.”

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”

“Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.”

“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.”

“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.”

“The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.”

“Words are but pictures of our thoughts.”