“Separation isn't time or distance
it's the bridge between us
finer than silk thread sharper than swords”

“…life is lonely, life is empty. Love isn't everything. A dear true friend is more than love--the serge outlasts the silk.”

“A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.”

“Good literature erects bridges between different peoples, and by having us enjoy, suffer, or feel surprise, unites us beneath the languages, beliefs, habits, customs, and prejudices that separate us.”

“As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.”

“Your earthly body is after all nothing more than a dress and inside it is a finer dress, and you yourself are in this finer dress.”

“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”

“Why isn't someone smarter than us doing this?”

“Soft words soften the hearts that are harder than rock, harsh words harden hearts that are softer than silk.”

“We are now in a position to prove the following propositions : —
1. The distance of the sun from the earth is greater than eighteen times, but less than twenty times, the distance of the moon (from the earth); this follows from the hypothesis about the halved moon.
2. The diameter of the sun has the same ratio (as aforesaid) to the diameter of the moon.
3. The diameter of the sun has to the diameter of the earth a ratio greater than that which 19 has to 3, but less than that which 43 has to 6; this follows from the ratio thus discovered between the distances, the hypothesis about the shadow, and the hypothesis that the moon subtends one fifteenth part of a sign of the zodiac.”