Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.

Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.