Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.