We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.

You can crush a rose

You can still go home a loyal wife.” - Warren Brown

There's no way the new chimney will fall down, Lu. Not with you in charge. It wouldn't dare.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

That same preface also contains a single line that really does sum everything up: 'Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.'

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

You want the president to be uninfluenced by any factors other than his advisers and the best interests of the United States. I think, on that category, Donald Trump easily beats Hillary Clinton.

Hippies, hippies... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.