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- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler
- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. — Anita Brookner
- The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. — Anita Brookner
- It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read. — Anita Brookner