Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

He that best understands the world, least likes it