“Some things were better lost than found.”

“The Articles of Confederation, which were usurped in favor of the Constitution at the Philadelphia convention, are better founding documents than the Constitution.”

“there are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.”

“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship”

“Jack considered: there were worse things that could happen than him dying. Of course, there were much better things, too.”

“Things are better now than things have been since men began keeping track of things. Things are better than they were only a few years ago. Things are better, in fact, than they were at 9:30 this morning, thanks to Tylenol and two Bloody Marys. But that's personal and history is general. It's always possible to come down with the mumps on V-J Day or to have, right in the middle of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a piece of it fall on your foot. In general, life is better than it ever has been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word: 'dentistry.”

“The things I lose completely are those which, lost by me, are not found by others.”

“If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.”

“There was reality and there was reality; and some things were more real than others.”

“Elsdon was once a market town as some say, and a city according to others; but as the annals of the parish were lost several centuries ago, it is impossible to determine what age it was either the one or the other. There are not the least traces of the former grandeur to be found, whence some antiquaries are apt to believe that it lost both its trade and charter at the Deluge.”