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's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

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

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

In literature imitations do not imitate.