"You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as arti…"

"If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself — ugly as they may seem to hi…"

"Supposing I was to tell you that it's just Beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the myste…"

"You mustn't feel sorry for me. Don't you see I'm happy at last — free — free! — freed from the farm — free to wander …"

"It's queer they'd be allowin' the sick ones to read books when I'll bet it's the same lazy readin' in the house bough…"

"Irish as a Paddy's pig."

"We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land wou…"

"Is it one wid this you'd be, Yank — black smoke from the funnels smudging the sea, smudging the decks — the bloody en…"

"Or rather, I inherited the acquired trait of the by-product, wealth, but none of the energy, none of the strength of …"

"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue!"