Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.