“Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. ”

“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”

“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.”

“As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!”

“Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.”

“The best of a bad bargain.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“It's amazing how easy the truth is to accept...No matter how strange.”

“Strange world isn't it?”

“It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.”

“World is not like what you see”

“What you see is what suffices you”

“...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”