“Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively.”

“Perhaps your envy counselled her Heathcliff to rob me of my treasures? But I've most of them written on my brain and printed in my heart, and you cannot deprive me of those.”

“The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look.”

“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”

“It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.”

“Perhaps what most of us perceive as the centers of ourselves are simply no longer needed. And we both know that the absence of function, in nature, means death. There is nothing superfluous in nature.”