We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. – Maurice Maeterlinck
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. – Maurice Maeterlinck
I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others? – Maurice Maeterlinck
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. – Maurice Maeterlinck
The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment. – J.B. Jackson
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, users manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things. – Jonathan Safran Foer