Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.
Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books.
The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.
Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.
The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had been in a refrigerator. You haven't allowed time to get at them to-to mould them over a little.