There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.