Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.