Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child ' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran Lebowitz
Each has his own tree of ancestors but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Robert Louis Stevenson
And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin
I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do period.
Steve Martin
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in or the fortunes they have met with.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation) sleep eating and swilling buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
Lord Byron
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
William Hazlitt
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana
