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

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.