Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

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.

The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

I don't want no better book than what your face is.