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

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

There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.

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.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

Friends are like money, easier made than kept.