The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

A German joke is no laughing matter.

Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.

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