If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.
By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.