Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.