Sometimes we don't do things we want to do so that others won't know we want to do them.

More from The Village

• Accept loss forever
• A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
• A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
• Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.