“And then he felt the misery of his life.”

“I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.”

“If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?”

“But if the folly of men made one angry one would pass one's life in a state of chronic ire.”

“It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.”

“So now what?''Well, if you insist on marrying me... But it's an awful risk we're taking!''Darling, that's what life's for - to take risks.”

“One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by come chance manage to evade the result of their folly.”