All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.