“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”

“love being such, or such,
the normal corners of your heart
will never guess how much
my wonderful jealousy is dark”

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”

“What is there to forgive?… Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.”

“Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”

“Exact words were of no consequence. At heart the squabble was as old as humanity itself, fug-headed antiques locking horns with omniscient youth.”

“My dear Tiberius, you must not give way to youthful emotion or take it to heart if anyone speaks ill of me; let us be satisfied if we can make people stop short at unkind words.”
Aetati tuae, mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.

“Mr. Stone was satisfied, being sure in his heart that any person skilled with mathematical tools could learn anything else he needed to know, with or without a master.”

“It is almost impossible to make jealousy go away in the heart and mind. However, it can be postponed for a while.”