I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side