Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?
Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.