I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Be good and you will be lonely.

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

Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.