I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil