It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.