Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.