I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
To stand still is to fall behind.
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.
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.