I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.