We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.
Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.