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.

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.