“Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.”

“Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.”

“Must this with farce and folly rack myhead unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,Whine me dead?”

“A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.”

“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”

“I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.”

“There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it.”

“It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.”

“A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snu...”