Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.