You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.