An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

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.

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.

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.