To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

There was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only 'hooking,' while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple steali…

She makes me get up just at the same time every morning; she makes me wash, they comb me all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed; I got to wear …

The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod - and yet it was an …

Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make th…