The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.

We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

He does not weep who does not see.

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.