“You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.”

“Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”

“His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know that the solitary life of many a plainsman had a tendency to develop eccentricities of conduct and character not always easily distinguishable from mental aberration. A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone, in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him.”

“Camino, s. Faja de tierra que permite ir de donde uno está cansado a donde es inútil ir.”

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”

“Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.”

“Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.”