Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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.

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.