“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...”

“Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.”

“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.”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”

“While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of t...”

“...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to produce a will, not merely good as a means to something els...”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”