All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.