“Life, if you know how to use it, is long; but…many, following no fixed aim, shifting and… dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course.”

“Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.”

“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.”

“Personally, I'm not a whiner. I don't believe in complaining about something if you don't have a realistic plan for how to fix it.”

“Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.”

“After all,how long could it take to fix a garbage disposal? He could have built her a freaking new one by now. With his teeth.”