If you listen at doors, you hear what you deserve.

The challenge is in identifying the cause. The effect identifies itself.

Bad results are the symptoms not the causes.

It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that led to great events.

It happened that at the late age of twenty-seven I had run away from home. High time, you might say; but rebels can't always be choosers.

[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.