The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:

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 the thing difficult to attain.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

She was as simple-hearted and honest as the day was long, and so she was an easy victim.