Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.