Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?
Human nature is the same in all professions.
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the bst-- I'm sure it is the most religious-- for I begin with writing the first sentence-- and trusting to Almighty God for the second.