Jimmie Saale

“To those who live in the narrow circle of human interests and human feelings, there ever exists, unheeded, almost unnoticed, before their very eyes, the most humbling proofs of their own comparative insignificance in the scale of creation, which, in the midst of their admitted mastery over the earth and all it contains, it would be well for them to consider, if they would obtain just views of what they are and what they were intended to be.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief

“But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Sooner or later I may figure out why you like being a kept poodle.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye