Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

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