People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe?

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.