He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain

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

I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial

The Jews are members of the human race - worse I can say of no man

Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first