Mark Twain Monkey Quotations

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice