It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
Life is long if you know how to use it.
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.