It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.