Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.