Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.