A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

The funniest things are the forbidden.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.