“so few in reality are the true necessities of man”
“How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.”
“The marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage beast as man. So holy it is, so touching, so wise and so great a credit is to man.”
“The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it”
“You spend your life so worried about what others think, when in reality, people mostly don't think. On the few occasions when they do, true, it is often something bad, but one has to at least admire the fact that they're thinking at all.”
“Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.”