I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.