A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.

There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.