As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.