What a fool old Adam was. Had everything his own way; had succeeded in gaining the love of the best looking girl in the neighborhood, but yet unsatisfied with his conquest he had to eat a miserable little apple.
Prophesying was the only human art that couldn't be improved by practice.
A malignant book would hurt nobody but the fool who wrote it.
Necessity knows no law.
Principles is another name for prejudice.
Fame is vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cut his throat if his theology isn't straight.
True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
Happiness ain't a thing in itself --- it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. That's all it is.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.