An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser

"All good things come to him who waits, you know.”
“Yes, unless you just turn out to be a waiter".

And people who are deeply and earnestly in love with each other are not much concerned with the opinions of others in regard to themselves.
They are in love — and that is sufficient!

Outside his own home, he was lonely and not so very much less than lonely there.

Oh, how sad to see the world so gay and she so lonely.

That’s the trouble with people who don’t know. They’re always guessing.

It was so hard to be poor, not to have money and position and to be able to do in life exactly as you wished.

So wild and unrecapturable is the fever of youth.

What matter it if a man gaineth the whole world and loseth his own soul?

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Seeing and doing are two entirely different things.

Somberness as opposed to happiness — success in love or failure in love.