All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.