It is only dogs that never bite their masters. - Thornton Wilder

An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

Like all solitary persons he had invested friendship with a divine glamour: he imagined that the people he passed on the street, laughing together and embracing when they parted, the people who dined together with so many smiles, you will scarcely believe me, but he imagined that they were extracting from all that congeniality great store of satisfaction.