If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.