Source: Matthew Arnold (1939), Ch. 11: Joy Whose Grounds Are True
“The Bible is a treasure. It contains enough to make us rich for time and eternity. It contains the secret of happy living. It contains the key of heaven. It contains the title-deeds of an inheritance incorruptible, and that fadeth not away. It contains the pearl of great price. Nay, in so far as it reveals them as the portion of us sinful worms, it contains the Saviour and the living God Himself.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 30.
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“Non-fiction contains facts, fiction contains truth.”
Next Testament (Boom Studios, 2014)

“I cannot be contained in brains, in names, in deeds!”
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Amidst our greatest happiness someone within us cries out: "I am in pain! I want to escape your happiness! I am stifling!"
Amidst our deepest despair someone within us cries out: "I do not despair! I fight on! I grasp at your head, I unsheathe myself from your body, I detach myself from the earth, I cannot be contained in brains, in names, in deeds!"
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.96 (Unnamed * “scholarly writer”: London Times. December 4, 1954)

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)

“There could not be a non-mathematical Universe containing living observers.”
The Artful Universe (1995)
Context: Where there is life there is a pattern, and where there is a pattern there is mathematics. Once that germ of rationality and order exists to turn a chaos into a cosmos, then so does mathematics. There could not be a non-mathematical Universe containing living observers.<!-- Ch. 5, p. 230

Sam Harris, Reply to a Christian http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=sharris_26_4 (May 2006)
2000s

“The aphorism "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he" contains the secret of life.”
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 4; Lee here quotes Proverbs 23:7 "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he."