“A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.”

“Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.”

“Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour ”

“Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.”

“Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when wishing apparently no longer led to anything, and Leigh-Cheri eventually named it Prince Charming after that son-of-a-bitch who never comes though.”

“It is unfortunately true that there is in blasphemy a certain outlet which solaces the burdened heart. When an atheist, drawing his watch, gave God a quarter of an hour in which to strike him dead, it is certain that it was a quarter of an hour of wrath and of atrocious joy. It was the paroxysm of despair, a nameless appeal to all celestial powers; it was a poor, wretched creature squirming under the foot that was crushing him; it was a loud cry of pain. Who knows? In the eyes of Him who sees all things, it was perhaps a prayer. ”