“He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.”

“No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.”

“But to be liked, you must never disagree. And if you never disagree, it's like only breathing in and never breathing outl A man can suffocate on courtesy. What if God wanted to be liked instead of loved? What if the almighty delayed every decision until He was sure it would please the majority?”

“for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”

“Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.”

“...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.”