It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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.
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.