The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

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.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

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