This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.