No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. The Winter of Our Discontent

Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: The Art Of War

The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes , which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble as it pleases. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us, and even if we dream, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost a matter of impossibility to separate the two. Oliver Twist