“God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.”
The Garden, ii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.”
Of Gardens
Essays (1625)
“Fear first made gods in the world.”
Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.
Source: Thebaid, Book III, Line 661. These words also appear in a fragmentary poem attributed to Petronius (Fragm. 22. 1).
Source: The Meaning of the City (1951), p. 5
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXI
Following the Equator (1897)
Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.”
Source: Drinking Midnight Wine
Source: The Dresden Files, Dead Beat (2005), Chapter 1, opening lines
As quoted in New York Tribune (28 February 1860).
1860s
“Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom;
Not made him wander, but continued him home.”
The Rebel Scot (1647).
The First Revelation, Chapter 5
Context: In this Little Thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it, the second is that God loveth it, the third, that God keepeth it. But what is to me verily the Maker, the Keeper, and the Lover, — I cannot tell; for till I am Substantially oned to Him, I may never have full rest nor very bliss: that is to say, till I be so fastened to Him, that there is right nought that is made betwixt my God and me.