Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

In the country, the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers biding its time.

If you don't change your beliefs your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.