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

“It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve”

“He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at. A body would a thought he was Adam, he was just all mud.”

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

“Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.”

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

“Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.”