Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.