Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.