Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.
hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.