“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?”

“To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.”

“Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”

“Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that made Osric Dane so furious. I should have thought that was plain enough to everybody!”

“We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.”

“[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.”

“Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?”