Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

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 must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.