“True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.”

“The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.”

“...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.”

“It is not by sin that we attain happiness, nor is it by virtue, nor is it by that kind of divine fire by which one makes great instinctive decisions and which is neither good not evil. It is by none of these things that one reaches happiness. One never reaches happiness.”

“The basic principles of logic dictate that a statement cannot be both true and false at the same time... and that a statement must be either true or false... Lucy is lying, or she is crazy, or she is telling the truth. She can’t be some combination, and she can’t be none of those things... The laws of logic dictate that she must be one of them... Notice how practical common sense about the suposed impossibility of other worlds doesn’t come into the equation.”

“Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.”