Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

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.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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