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

“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.”

“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”

“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”

“Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.”