Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
We should make virtue our master, not our servant.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.