Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

There is no joy in possession without sharing.

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.