why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.
Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.