"To a toad what is beauty? A..." - Quote by Voltaire

“If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer”

“Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.”

“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”

“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”

“Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.”

“How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!”

“The source of our stress isn't really difficulties, circumstances and situations-it's our attitude and approach toward them.”

“There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.”

“I said to the night, "If you are in love with the moon, it is because you never stay for long." The night turned to me and said, "It is not my fault. I never see the Sun, how can I know that love is endless?”