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.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Tight pants are just uncomfortable.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.