Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.
The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.
I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.