I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

Who's scruffy-looking?

Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations. He then said: If a man does not see or hear the waters of the Jordan, then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an open market. If a man would not labour in the salt and rock quarri

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to

No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large.

"Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what *___can* you believe?!"

I knew her before she was a virgin.

The faster I go, the behinder I get.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

The last vestiges of the old Republic have been swept away.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

It's not enough to be Hungarian; you must have talent too.

A good name lost is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

Luke, I'm yer father, eh. Come over to the dark side, you hoser.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for even the greatest fool may ask more the the wisest man can answer.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.

One good turn deserves another.

[Maturity consists in the discovery that] there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.