Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is