The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.