"isn't so astonishing, the number of things..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.”

“But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!”

“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

“Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge”

“The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.”

“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice.”

“People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.”

“When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.”

“This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.”