in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

I don't want no better book than what your face is.

There is only one good sex. The female one.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.