Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.