In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.

I have no time to be in a hurry.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.