Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

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.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.