All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.
Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)
Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.