Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.