People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.