“Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. … When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.”

“How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.”

“Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.”

“He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.”

“Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.”

“If they are destroying a flag that belongs to someone else, that's a prosecutable crime. If it is a flag they own, I really don't want to amend the Constitution to prosecute someone for foolishly desecrating their own property. We should condemn them and pity them instead.”

“I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger. We knew the risks and took them anyway.”

“Many children who grow up in our cities are surrounded by the artifacts of science but have good reason to see them as belonging to "the others"; in many cases they are perceived as belonging to the social enemy.”

“What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them?”

“People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.”