Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

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.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.