God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

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

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

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.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.