Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.