There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.