“I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.”

“It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.”

“They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.”

“Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong sid...”

“It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.”

“You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.”

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didnt want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didnt feel so good today.”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

“Weakness shown is worse than weakness felt.”