I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.