'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

As leopard feels at home with leopard.