Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.