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

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

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.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.