There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

[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.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!