You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.

He travels best that knows when to return.