But in this age, logic was a flame that must be frequently starved of fuel. - Matt Hughes

Filidor marveled at the intransigence of adolescence, not remembering that he had possessed an abundance of the same quality not many years since.

Persons who disguise themselves when they go out into the world rarely do so for innocent purposes. At best, they mean to pull some merry prank; all too often, they intend a considerably deeper mischief.

I reflected that the genial glow that surrounds the doer of a good deed loses some of its warmth and brightness when the recipient meets every action with the pinched face of suspicion.