Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

Life is too short for chess.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.