All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.