The easiest way of life is the best.

A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.