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.

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.