In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.