“I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.”
“I’m not supposed to be anything else than a man that’s stupidly in love with you. That’s what I know.”
“That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.”
“Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.”
“The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else”
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”