Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Life is too short to learn German
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349