No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.