I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

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.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?