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.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.