Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.