Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.