There’s nothing like mixing with woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.

A curious and eager soul was imprisoned in all this lard, but by dint of never refusing himself a pheasant or a goose or his daily procession of Roman wines, he was his own bitter jailer.

Everybody’s always talking about people breaking into houses ... but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very thoughts in your eyes.

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.

The best thing about animals is that they don’t talk much.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

I’ve never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for—whether it’s a field, or a home, or a country.