“There is nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”

“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”

“What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.”

“I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.”

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”

“The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.”

“She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.”

“For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.”
Omnium autem rerum, ex quibus aliquid adquiritur, nihil est agri cultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius.

“This is the reason that the inside of every world is so much vaster than the outside.”