Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship, and pass the rosy wine.

People don't really bother me as much as you might think.

Any man today who returns from work sinks into a chair and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.

Early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise.

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

When cowardice is made respectable its followers are without number, both from among the weak and the strong, it easily becomes a fashion.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic not gifted with the necessary scientific learning presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!

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