Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.