“The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today”

“My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere”

“And we are put on earth a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love”

“As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys”

“Hunger makes a thief of any man”

“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied”