Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.