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.

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.