But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

Truth is so often disconcerting.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

The pursuit of dreams is supernatural endeavours.

That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.

Segmenting your sample is one of the easiest ways to simplify.

It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever.

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote

The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.