Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.

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.

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.