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

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

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.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.