What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.
Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
Cruelty is the only sin.
The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.