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.

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.