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.

Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

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

At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

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