And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

Only one who loves can remember so well.

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.