Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.
Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.
To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.
Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.
Hebrews. This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
I am a fan of a bright sock. They're bold.
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.
Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.