These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.