There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.