Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.