My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.

Not if I know myself at all.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!