For who is pleased with himself.

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.