Concepts antedate facts.

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.